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7 June 2020

Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.

10.0 |
Art Rocker

With this seemingly secretive music a fabulous record has been made
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9.055344

9.0 |
Bowlegs

No longer skimming along the surface of things, to listen to this makes me feel like I’m diving the depths of my imagination again
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9.055407

9.0 |
Drowned In Sound

These songs elicit our full attention, they shut out emails and alarms and reminders and straight-up hijack your emotional amphitheatre
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9.055475

9.0 |
music OMH

The music on Field Of Reeds is certainly not easily accessible but, at its heart, this is a supremely evocative album
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9.055597

9.0 |
All Music

The most challenging title in their catalog and also the most groundbreaking
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9.057126

9.0 |
Fact

There’s one adjective that fits Field of Reeds more than any other, and that is ‘beautiful’. It’s really, really beautiful
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8.555567

8.5 |
The Quietus

A rich, complex album that, similarly, rewards both the grand overview and close attention, and offers up fresh details, insights and emotions with each listen
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8.455753

8.4 |
Pitchfork

The spareness and sense of space on Field of Reeds is remarkable, the kind that'll make you glance over your shoulder as beguiling mercury-slicked glows slip into an overwhelming, sometimes vicious sense of anxiety
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8.055317

8.0 |
The Skinny

Its lofty ambitions and experiments are tempered by a melodiousness that transcends any accusations of it being a purely academic exercise
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8.056153

8.0 |
Mojo

A startlingly listenable proposition. Print edition only

8.055588

8.0 |
Loud And Quiet

‘Field of Reeds’ is These New Puritans’ least commercial record to date, taking ‘Hiddens’’s boisterous fascination with DIY orchestrations to a place more serene yet ominous
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8.055542

8.0 |
Independent on Sunday

It's that rare thing: an album that will reward repeated listening by drip-feeding you its secrets
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8.055490

8.0 |
The Guardian

Every note is recorded with such painstaking attention to resonance that even the musicians' breathing feels integral
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8.055495

8.0 |
The Irish Times

The odd concoction of sounds and shapes takes some absorption and occasionally drifts into self-indulgence. But when it works, These New Puritans seem like a truly exciting band
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8.055501

8.0 |
DIY

Imagination runs riot and gets away with every daring feat, each one more foolish than the previous
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8.055417

8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit

While it isn’t pretty, cute, comfortable or enlightening music, Field of Reeds is important, resonant, serious and very very clever
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